Word: failings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geneva there was consternation-and something at last to talk about. Bitterly, Selwyn Lloyd commented that the story could not fail to have a "bad effect on the British delegation's standing with other delegations." In London Laborite Nye Bevan wryly remarked that if Labor had said such a thing, "we should have been accused of unpatriotically stabbing the Foreign Secretary in the back in the course of international negotiations...
...life toward national political leadership. Time and again he suffered setbacks. At one point, frustrated beyond endurance, he withdrew from his friends, took on Scotch as his closest companion, even talked of quitting Congress. Yet in the ambition that drives him and in the absolute determination not to fail again lies the key to Charlie Halleck's success as legislative leader...
...would deny that the Alsops are fine reporters, in that they are thorough and determined. Nor can one fail to be impressed by their great faith in the ability of democratic processes to solve problems which are fully presented to the nation. But it is equally impossible to avoid a feeling of dislike, verging on distrust, for what they say and the way they say it. Of course, such was Cassandra's fate, as the Alsops are probably only too ready to tell you. But it is not just their message which makes them unpleasant to read; it is their...
...angry by speaking too plainly, please don't take it out on me. After all, I didn't have a Communist as a an intimate 'girl friend,' didn't contribute money to the Communist party, didn't associate with Communists and employ them in secret Government work or fail to pass security tests. Nor have I lied about the forgoing when questioned thereon. Finally, don't blame me for appointing...
...serious is the threat presented to man by fallout-the radioactive debris that settles invisibly over the earth after test explosions? Reactions range from unconcern to the near side of panic. Alarmed by recent announcements of sizable fail-out increases over North America since the U.S. and Soviet nuclear tests in October, a subcommittee of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy held hearings last week, listened to scientists' reports addressed to two pivotal questions: How much of fission's byproducts -notably strontium 90, which enters the body in food, accumulates in the bones and may cause leukemia...